I'll just cut right to it. Writing is top teir, I've never been so enthralled with the lore and characters and quests than I have in any other game. My gripe is the pain the gameplay entails. From the repetitive skill checks to the convaluted loot and inventory system, to the overall layout of the sprites i.e. having to look pixel by pixel to pick things off the ground for quests and overall decent loot (by which I only knew they were there by looking online) and finally the combat mechanics. The fact that to progress decently in this game, you would have needed to play it before to know where to go, what to say, how to build you character. I just found it pointlessly time consuming with having to restart time after time till I got it right (yet I still found myself compelled to give it another shot). I loved the journey, but by the end I was just wishing it put a bullet in my head and I have a strong feeling I will not be revisiting this broken masterpiece in the foreseeable future.
